Kansas City, Kansas, Sales Tax Increase Measure (August 2018)

Kansas City Sales Tax Increase Measure
Election date August 7, 2018
Topic City tax and Local sales and use tax
Status Approved
Type Referral

Kansas City Sales Tax Increase Measure was on the ballot as a referral in Kansas City on August 7, 2018. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported levying an additional 0.375% citywide retailers’ sales tax for 10 years, with revenue dedicated to funding public safety operations and the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, curbs, and sidewalks.

A "no" vote opposed levying an additional 0.375% citywide retailers’ sales tax for 10 years, with revenue dedicated to funding public safety operations and the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, curbs, and sidewalks.

Election results

Kansas City Sales Tax Increase Measure
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		10,710	60.79%
No		6,909	39.21%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Sales Tax Increase Measure was as follows:

“

Shall the City of Kansas City, Kansas be authorized to impose an additional three-eighths of one percent citywide retailers’ tax, the proceeds of which shall be used for the purposes of financing Public Safety operations and Neighborhood Infrastructure improvements, including the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, curbs and sidewalks, the collection of such Sales Tax commencing on July 1, 2020, or as soon thereafter as permitted by law, and terminating ten years after its commencement?

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Path to the ballot

This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Kansas City.

See also

Local measures

• Local measures in 2018
• Local sales tax on the ballot

Kansas

• Kansas 2018 local measures
• Local ballot measures, Kansas
• Kansas City, Kansas

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